Chiara Barzini is an Italian author and award-winning screenwriter best known for her debut English-language novel, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, and her nonfiction work Aqua: A History of Water and Lost Dreams. Born in Rome, she moved to California at fifteen, and her writing has appeared in Vogue, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and Vice. Her screenplay for the film Arianna was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Italian Golden Globes, and she serves as a Literature Advisor at the American Academy in Rome.
We talk about her move from Rome to California as a teenager and the binary life that split created, and about writing her latest book, a memoir set between Los Angeles and Rome, in English even though it was commissioned in Italian. She talks about juggling two languages on the page, and her conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri about what she calls a hybrid text, one that can feel like a betrayal of both languages at once. And we get into exile as a feeling of not fully belonging anywhere, and writing as a way of holding two identities together rather than picking one.
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